Anja Kling and Carol Schuler show what a perfectionist heart doctor can experience with a chaotic precariat chick. Kling’s fine game stands out from the clichéd events.
Berlin – Everything revolves around a culture clash of its own in the ZDF comedy “Dreiraumwohnung”.
This is not a clash of Europeans and Asians, but representatives of two typical German social classes: there is an ambitious hospital heart doctor who always maintains control and style, and a chaotic Berlin precarious chick in brightly colored glittering clothes. One of them has two well-off children from her ex-husband, the other three little nuisances from four fathers, so to speak. With them she moves into the creamy white styled villa of the others and turns everything upside down there.
Who the women look familiar: In 2017, the TV film “Twin Room” told how the two of them lie next to each other in a rehab clinic, can’t stand each other, but in the end – almost – become friends. The story based on a novel and the script by Astrid Ruppert had Grimme Prize winner Isabel Kleeberg (“Die hard tour”) with audience favorite Anja Kling (“Das Quartett”, doctor Connie) and the Grimme Prize-winning Swiss Carol Schuler (“ Departure into freedom ”, life artist Jackie) cheerfully staged and probably amused many viewers. The second, presented on Monday at 8:15 p.m., the sequel.
You can also have fun with a “three-room apartment” – but not everyone should be able to do that. The characters and the turbulent events accompanied by rock and pop songs are all too obvious and clichéd. This includes the Burgtheater actress Caroline Peters (“Murder with a View”, “The First Name”) in the role of the medical doctor Marit, who competes with Connie for the post of clinic director. The basis for action are the mania for control and the iron sense of duty Connie, who thus leads a rather lonely private life.
Which she is also promptly accused of by the personnel consultant that the clinic hired for the job advertisement. You want “a balanced person with an intact social environment,” he growls. Then it happens that just at that moment Jackie and offspring burst into the villa with their sacks and bags. Allegedly “only for one night”, there was water damage in the apartment. “You’re a great friend,” whispers the nail caretaker. And in order to prove to the clinic and her children how friendly she is, Connie puts on a good face for weeks at a time. Even when their hallway becomes a battlefield full of plastic toys, the bidet is misused, their children spoil their stomachs with fast food and play brutal video games. And it turns out that the house guests do not even have their own apartment.
After a few twists and turns, including Connie’s fall from the ladder when she tries to tear off pink curtains stapled to the ceiling by Jackie, it is – who would not have guessed? – the constantly chattering lower-class woman who makes it clear to the academic what true friendship and respect mean. Regardless of whether you want to become a chief physician or not. In her role as a proletarian with a heart, Schuler gives the monkey a lot of sugar, which always makes people laugh. The most interesting thing about Kleeberg’s film, however, is Kling. The delicate game of the 51-year-olds really makes the emotional nuances of a career woman and single mother between duty and tolerance, despair and longing tangible. dpa
